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Alice Preston (Gwynne)

Also Known As: "Kiki"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States
Death: December 23, 1946 (51)
Stanhope Hotel, New York, New York County, New York, United States (Suicide)
Place of Burial: 4199 Webster Avenue, The Bronx, Bronx County, New York, 10470, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Edward Erskine Gwynne and Helen Gwynne
Wife of Jerome Preston
Ex-wife of Horace Ransom Bigelow Allen
Ex-partner of Prince George Windsor, Duke of Kent
Mother of Ethan Allen and Alice Allen

Managed by: Bror Lennarth Eriksson
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About Alice Preston

Alice Karslake Preston 'Kiki' (Gwynne)

Nee: Gwynne, daughter of Edward Erskine Gwynne Sr., a cousin of businesswoman and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt
Birth Date: 8 October 1895 Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA
Death Date: 23 December 1946 New York, New York, suicide, jumped from window
Profession: Socialite

Married: 1. 1919 Horace Ransom Bigelow Allen (1892-1961) (div.1924) 2. 1925 Jerome 'Gerry' Preston (1897-1934)

Children: Alice Gwynne Allen (Russell) (1921 Hempstead, New York-2003); Ethan Allen (4 June 1919 Biarritz-1944, killed during Normandy landings)

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Alice Preston's Timeline

1895
October 8, 1895
Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States
1919
June 4, 1919
Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
1921
November 7, 1921
Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States
1946
December 23, 1946
Age 51
Stanhope Hotel, New York, New York County, New York, United States
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Woodlawn Cemetery, 4199 Webster Avenue, The Bronx, Bronx County, New York, 10470, United States